The Institute for Women's Leadership presents the 2017 Annual Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture: The New Normal? Women, Media, and Politics

Michel Martin, journalist and weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered will be moderating a conversation with:

Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and author of the New York Times best-seller All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Farai Chideya, reporter, political and cultural analyst, and Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center. Most recently Farai covered the 2016 election for FiveThirtyEight.com.

Explore the ways media is shaping ideas about women and power in the current political climate. Can this be our new normal? Women's voices matter. Join the converastion as some of the best minds in journalist take on issues of race, gender, and politics in the context of the 2016 election.

Driving to this event? Parking is available on the College Avenue Campus in Lot 1, Lot 11, and Lot 16.

This event is the first public program associated with the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies Initiative at Rutgers University. The 2017 Co-sponsors include: The Institute for Women's Leadership; Center for American Women and Politics; School of Communication and Information. We are grateful for support from the Ford Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for making this year's program possible.